Myths and Sanctioned Ignorance in British Immigration Discourse

Towards a Linguistic Sociology of Absences

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvSamuel Bennett,Poznan) Bennett, Samuel (Assistant Professor, Faculty of English, Assistant Professor, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University

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Nations all have stories about themselves--where they came from, what it means to be a citizen of that nation, what its values are. In Myths and Sanctioned Ignorance in British Immigration Discourse, Samuel Bennett looks at British national myths about immigration and the country's colonial history. Combining Critical Discourse Studies with decolonial and postcolonial theories, Bennett offers an in-depth, methodologically rigorous analysis of a wide range of material to show how current immigration discourses are inextricably tied to the past. The book identifies four key myths: euphemization of the Commonwealth (and erasure of Britain's colonial history); immigration as both enrichment and threat; Britain offering a safe haven for those in need; and a teleological story of "British values." Intentionally moving backwards and forwards between past and the present, and across genres, Bennett shows how the myths the UK tells itself are at once stable, deployed in different contexts, and historically rooted. Ultimately, this book argues that through these myths the migrant "Other"--and, by extension, British ethnic minorities--have been silenced and erased from the country's story which legitimises a racialised immigration policy.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-04-23
Mått140 x 224 x 27 mm
Vikt499 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieOxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
Antal sidor264
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780197747216

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Samuel Bennett is an Assistant Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan. His research centres around discursive constructions of migrant integration, (non)belonging, exclusion, and legitimisation, with a focus on UK political actors. He is currently Chair of the CADAAD network and co-editor of Journal of Language & Politics. He is the author of Constructions of Migrant Integration in British Public Discourse (2018), along with several chapters in edited volumes and articles in respected journals, including Critical Discourse Studies and Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies. Away from academia, he has been involved in immigration, community building, and empowerment charities for over twenty years, including as a research intern at the British Refugee Council, a refugee mentor, development education coordinator, and a board member of Migrant Info Point, an immigration charity in Poland.

List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: British Exceptionalism: Purifying History in Election ManifestosChapter 3: Colonial Forgettings: The Historical Subject and the Erasure of EffectChapter 4: Britain in Danger: Citizenship as (White) PrivilegeChapter 5: The Necropolitics of Asylum PolicyChapter 6: Myths, Absences, and Emergences: The Case of British ValuesChapter 7: Conclusion: Towards a Linguistic Sociology of AbsencesAppendix A: List of textbooks analysed in Chapter 3Appendix B: List of articles cited in Chapter 4ReferencesIndex

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